Ms CLANCY (Elder) (11:31): I move the following amendments:

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(a) welcomes the 1,432 additional doctors, nurses and ambos and allied health workers that have been recruited in the last two years;

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(b) recognises that ambulance response times have improved significantly from only 47 per cent of priority 1 cases reached on time in January 2022 to 73.3 per cent in March 2024;

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(c) notes the government's significant investment, including adding 550 more beds to the system;

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(d) expresses its significant concern at the impact ramping has on our hardworking frontline health workers and South Australian patients.

The state government is committed to doing everything possible to address ramping at our hospitals, ensuring South Australians receive the urgent care they need when they need it. In two years, we have added $4.4 billion to the health budget over five years. Unlike the opposition, we are focused on solutions, rather than focusing on the problem, and it is interesting, though not entirely surprising, that those opposite only decided there was a problem once they were no longer in government.

We inherited a system from the former government that, following underinvestment and neglect, saw significant increases in ambulance ramping times from 750 hours in March 2018 to 2,712 hours in March 2022, a 262 per cent increase. Instead of addressing the issue, the former government made more than 100 nurses redundant, including during the pandemic, and launched a war on our ambos. Corporate liquidators were also appointed to make hundreds of millions of dollars of cuts to our hospitals.

We are not cutting beds, we are not cutting staff, and we are not bringing in corporate liquidators to run hospitals. We have comprehensive plans to address every aspect of the blockages that lead to patients waiting longer on the ramp, and in the community, for an ambulance, and to invest in new health initiatives to meet demand pressures, ease pressure on hospitals and address ramping.

We, on this side of the house, have been working tirelessly to reverse the cuts and neglect. We are pleased to share the new data that shows the government has bolstered our hospitals and health sites with 1,432 additional nurses, doctors, ambos and allied health workers in the two years since the election. These 1,432 additional staff are supporting the government's commitment to open 550 more beds right across the system, including 280 by the end of next year, to deliver better health care for South Australians.

We are delivering more resources to the SA Ambulance Service to improve wait times by recruiting 350 more ambos, with more than 170 already on the road; building four new ambulance stations in priority areas, including in my community at the Repat; delivering a new SAAS headquarters, which includes a new city ambulance station; upgrading and expanding 14 ambulance stations; and launching a life-saving smart phone app, GoodSAM, to help people in cardiac arrest access CPR support sooner, potentially sending aid within seconds of a 000 call.

The latest Report on Government Services 2022-23 released earlier this year also shows that South Australia has experienced the most significant improvements of any jurisdiction in ambulance response times in a year. It shows that average ambulance response times in metropolitan Adelaide improved 22 per cent in our first year in government, with SAAS responding to 90 per cent of all incidents within 55.6 minutes compared with 71.3 minutes the year before, more than 15 minutes faster.

The report also highlights the Malinauskas government's increased investment in SAAS, with $109.9 million in additional government funding in 2022-23—a $109.9 million increase. This compares with the previous government, which cut funding to SAAS by $13 million in its first two years.

The combination of all these measures is essential to ensure the longstanding problem of the ramping crisis can be fixed and ambulances can be released to respond to cases in the community. This continues to be our number one priority because it is so important for improving patient care.

I shudder to think what situation we would be in had Labor not won the last election: more cuts, more denial, no leadership, no investment. I am proud that we are getting on with the job and doing everything we can.